A reveller had to be rescued by firefighters after a dramatic two-storey plunge below street-level from a telephone box in Cambridge.

Police were called to the incident at 4.10am today after reports the man, who was said to be drunk, had fallen over railings in Regent’s Street opposite Mandela House, Cambridge City Council offices, from the flat-roofed kiosk.

Officers had to call in firefighters as they were unable to lift him out of the basement passage below ground level and part of a large office block.

A crew from the city were called to the scene and managed to rescue the man as paramedics arrived to treat him at the scene.

The casualty was taken to Addenbrooke’s Hospital as a precaution, police said.

It is believed the man scaled the kiosk before the fall.

A Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service spokeswoman said: “One crew from Cambridge was called to a man who had fallen from the railings near the telephone kiosk at Regent Street in Cambridge. Firefighters arrived to discover that the man had fallen two storeys below ground.

“They rescued the man and left him in the care of paramedics at the scene. Crews returned to their fire station by 4.45am.”

Officers from Cambridgeshire police were called to the scene and found the man The incident comes after a late-night reveller was left in a painful position when his leg was impaled on a spiked railing mid-climb.

Emergency services were all called to Sidney Street in the early hours of a Saturday morning in July to reports of a man in distress.

Firefighters used specialist cutting equipment to free the stranded casualty and had left the scene by 4.20am.

The man was left in the care of paramedics who took him by ambulance to Addenbrooke’s, when he was in a stable condition.

And a teenage reveller fell at least 15ft after climbing up St Andrew’s Street Baptist Church church.

The 19-year-old, described by police as “drunk”, was unconscious when he was taken to hospital but was not thought to be seriously injured.

Police officers said the man was found shortly after 11.25pm. An ambulance service spokeswoman said she believed the man had fallen more than 20ft.

The incidents all happened near several popular city nightspots and at the start of Freshers Week.